From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 20 21:30:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D27AB16A41F for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 21:30:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout1.cac.washington.edu (mxout1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B052C13C46E for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 21:30:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.141] (may be forged)) by mxout1.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l4KLUcli004533 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 20 May 2007 14:30:38 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.45] (c-67-166-149-71.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.166.149.71]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l4KLUbWh020795 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 20 May 2007 14:30:37 -0700 Message-ID: <4650BDFD.2040407@u.washington.edu> Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 14:30:37 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Schmehl References: <0E167714A025990811F5A274@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> In-Reply-To: <0E167714A025990811F5A274@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.1.294258, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.5.20.140838 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Question about ps display X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 21:30:38 -0000 Paul Schmehl wrote: > I'm trying to figure out why courier imap ssl refuses to display the > status of the process. I've tried adding both check_pidfile and > check_process to the startup script, but neither works. > > I think the problem is related to the way ps displays the process. Even > though courierlogger (the parent process) is located in > /usr/local/sbin/courierlogger, ps displays it like this: > > 21842 p2 S 0:00.00 [courierlogger] > > Why does ps display the process like this instead of displaying the full > path? > > Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) > Senior Information Security Analyst > The University of Texas at Dallas > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ Because the command was in the search path and was invoked as "courierlogger" :)? -Garrett